Gaming Meal Podcast

On episode 252 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric (and Gilbert joined) cover this week’s appetizers (gaming news). We have our well overdue review round-up and talk about a lot of the games that have been released so far this year. We also talk about PlayStation shutting down another studio, Epic lays off over 1000 employees and Nintendo is scaling back manufacturing and updating their game pricing model.In our main topic, we discuss the Game Publisher Rankings list released by Metacritic. Metacritic does this every year and every year we like to take a look and see which publishers are doing good and which are not so good.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 251 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric cover this week’s appetizers (gaming news). We discuss the Xbox executives shake up, PlayStation shutting down BluePoint, HighGuard has officially shut down and the next generation of Pokemon, Winds and Waves!For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 250 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny, Gilbert and Eric, reminisce over 6 years of podcasting. We take a look at previous milestone episodes and go down memory lane. See how things were 6 years ago and from then till now; what was relevant in the industry, what was on our minds, what we liked, what we expected to happen. For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 249 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric discuss the Feb 2026 State of Play. Lots of good announcements: God of War Trilogy Remake, Castlevania is alive again, so is Dead or Alive, Kena sequel, a new Legacy of Kain game, new Silent Hill, Metal Gear Collection Vol.2, Konami is back baby! And more!For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 248 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric cover this week’s appetizers (gaming news), including the recent Xbox Developer Direct, the Ubisoft reorganization, and Nintendo Direct: Partner showcase.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 247 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric try to predict things that will happen in the video game industry in 2026. Will the industry face challenges? Drastic changes? Is Half-Life 3 finally coming? Unlikely, but we did talk about it.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 246 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric review all of the predictions that we made last year. We recap the draft results, see who had the better picks. Afterwards we discuss our predictions from a year ago and see just how good or bad they were.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 245 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Manny and Eric dive into our entrée (main discussion), where we performed our 2026 videogame fantasy draft and preview the games expected to come for 2026.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on social media at: Twitter at www.twitter.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. Thanks for listening, and please subscribe to the Gaming Meal Podcast!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 244 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric (CyberEric) and Manny discuss recent gaming news, including: D.I.C.E. Awards nominees, the death of Anthem, Meta shuts down more game studios, rumors on StarCraft, Wolfenstein and Ecco the Dolphin games, and Steam continues to grow.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 243 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric (CyberEric) and Manny discuss the various announcements from the 2025 Game Awards, including Star Wars, Divinity, Tomb Raider and more.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 242 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, CyberEric and Manny discuss the news (appetizers) that Netflix is buying Warner Bros, the RAM price epidemic, and if Expedition 33 is inevitable. For our main course, we discuss our predictions for the Game Awards.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 241 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, CyberEric and Manny discuss the Game Awards GOTY nominees and info from the Steam Hardware survey. For our main topic, we discuss a recent IGN and Nintendo Life Top 100 Nintendo Games list, one by one.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 240 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, CyberEric and Manny discuss the new hardware from Valve, the new Steam Machine, Steam Controller and Steam Frame VR headset. We then go into our appetizers (gaming news), discussing the delay of GTA6 and the PlayStation cross-buy rumors and the recent Japan State of Play.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 239 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, CyberEric takes over this week's podcast, and discusses two appetizers (gaming news), discussing his impressions of Battlefield 6, Pokémon Legends ZA and Ninja Gaiden 4. He also discusses the latest news debacles coming from Xbox. For the main course, he discusses the announcement of Halo Campaign Evolved, the remake of Halo CE coming in 2026 to Xbox, PC and PS5(!). For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 238 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric and Manny go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about the Golden Joystick awards nominees, FF7 Remake director likes putting ‘cheats’ in his games, and is that a Pikmin teaser? Yes, yes it is. For our main course, we discuss the current state of Xbox. With all of the recent price increases, rumors and all of that, we felt the need to reassess the situation a little and discuss the big picture of what is happening with Xbox.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif (what we have been playing) and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 237 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric and Manny go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about all of the recent game bangers we’ve been getting over the past couple of weeks in our review roundup, Xbox going up in price again… didn’t we just do this last week? But yes, it’s true, Xbox is now raising the prices of Game Pass and the Xbox ROG Ally isn’t cheap either. We also discuss Bowser leaving Nintendo and EA going private in a $50+ billion dollar deal. For our main course, we recap last week’s PlayStation’s State of Play (Sep 2025), and we talk about the new Wolverine game.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif (what we have been playing) and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 236 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric, Manny and Myka go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about Nintendo patenting achievements, Xbox going up in price again and Microsoft looking into cross save functionality. For our main course, we make predictions for PlayStation’s State of Play coming September 24, 2025, and we go into a little history of all Sony first party dev studios.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif (what we have been playing) and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 235 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Eric, Manny, Gilbert and Myka go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about Final Fantasy 7 remake updates, Nintendo patents summoning characters, and the PlayStation 30th anniversary. For our main course, we discuss the recent September 2025 Nintendo Direct, and talk about all the Mario announcements, Fire Emblem, and many more games.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif (what we have been playing) and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 234 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Erick and Manny go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about Sony reportedly planning a Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable, Fairgames director departing Haven studios, Crystal Dynamics tried to acquire Perfect Dark.For our main course, we discuss the surprise quick launch for Hollow Knight: Silksong and how it is affecting the game industry, particular indie releases.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif (what we have been playing) and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.

On episode 233 of the Gaming Meal Podcast, Erick and Manny go over this week's appetizer (gaming news) where we talk about the Recent Game Releases in our Review Round-up, Nintendo Switch 2 already showcasing performance woes, and Roblox, it’s quite popular. For our main course, we wanted to embrace Jolly Cooperation and discuss games we love to play with others in a collaborative way. No competition here, just good old co-op games. We talk about what games we love, why we think co-op gaming is undervalued and some recent co-op games we’ve played.Then we talk about what we are currently playing in our digestif and end with some desserts.For more information, visit us at www.TheGamingMeal.com and please follow us on socials at: BlueSky at gamingmeal.bsky.social, X at x.com/GamingMeal, Twitch at www.twitch.tv/gamingmeal, and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaming.meal.14. You can also follow Eric directly on X and BlueSky at @CyberEric, and on YouTube and Twitch at “CyberEricGaming”.Thanks for listening, please share and subscribe to the Gaming Meal!Music credit goes to SubspaceAudio, celestialghost8, Worlfgang, and mutkanto.